Explaining Post Soviet Patchworks V 2 Pathways From The Past To The Global

Author : Klaus Segbers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315202785
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: V. 2: Pathways from the Past to the Global written by Klaus Segbers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title was first published in 2001. Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools, this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states.This second volume is concerned with institutions. It considers markets, property rights, networks, the information technology revolution and Russia's future and migration. The contributors take an original approach, putting the developments of the Post-Soviet states during the last ten years into a medium term context, elevating the debate above normal political speculation.A substantial and unique text, this book is relevant for students, researchers, journalists and decision-makers interested in the politics, international relations, economics, social policy and sociology of the FSU."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Klaus Segbers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138704206
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: V. 2: Pathways from the Past to the Global written by Klaus Segbers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. This volume seeks to explain post-Soviet patchworks, focusing on pathways from the past to the global. It presents the basic results of the research project Transformation and Globalization, implemented in 1998-2000. Contributors include Gerald Easter, Georgii Kleiner and Nina Oding.

Author : Klaus Segbers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: Pathways from the past to the global written by Klaus Segbers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Klaus Segbers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351807536
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks written by Klaus Segbers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools, this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states. This first volume focuses on state, sectoral, and transnational actors from a predominantly rational choice perspective. The book includes an extensive introduction by the editor which uses additional material gathered by the project team on two polls, 1999 and 2000, which, in addition to the individual studies, provide sufficient data to obtain unprecedented insights into the basic preferences and the logic of action of the main players in Russia. The outcomes of this research will be particularly relevant for students, researchers, journalists and decision-makers interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states’ politics, international relations, economics, social policy and sociology.

Author : Balihar Sanghera
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039103294
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries written by Balihar Sanghera and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces three main approaches to the sociology of post-Soviet societies: studies guided by neoliberal theory and/or practice; work which may be termed neoconservative in orientation, and which is often a response to the first; and a third type of work that is considered both critical and reflexive, and which seeks to transcend the limitations of the other approaches. The book is divided into three parts, addressing polity, culture and economy. In each section, authors endeavour to transcend both neoliberalism and neoconservatism, and reach for a third approach, 'critical social science'. This is a broad movement, and the authors vary in their own explanatory and normative ideas as they carve out frameworks that will enable them to develop a more rigorous and at the same time more comprehensive and critical understanding of social change.

Author : Klaus Segbers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: Political economy of regions, regimes and republics written by Klaus Segbers and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools, this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states.This third volume addresses the important regional dimension of the Russian Federation. The basic point of departure for all analyses is how regions and regional institutions deal with the global and local, past and present. It also presents new material on geography, competition and conflict, individual regions and the development of political institutions and federalism.This volume will be of particular interest to students, researchers, journalists and decision-makers whose focus is on politics, international relations, economics, social policy and sociology in Russia and the Post-Soviet states.

Author : Alain Touraine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777548
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies written by Alain Touraine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The "Red Mafia" in Russia have become the subject of increasing international interest and considerable misinterpretation. After well-received editions in Russian, French and Italian, Anton Oleinik's study of Russian prisons, in which he explores the social roots of organized crime in post-Soviet societies, is now published in English. This English edition includes a postscript on the Moscow terrorist crisis of 2002. Oleinik's analysis reveals prison society as a mirror of broader Russian society - characterized by the absence of the state as an organizer of social practices. He builds on this to make a central distinction between two types of societies - the modern "large" society and the "small" society, like Russia, that has only been partially modernized, and in which the world of everyday life, experiences and relationships remains entirely separated from the official aims of modernization and efficiency. Oleinik is interested in the void between these two separate worlds, a void he sees being filled in Russia by the Mafia.

Author : Richard Connolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415672422
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Sources of Social Order Development in Post-socialist Eastern Europe written by Richard Connolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of political development. This book looks at why this is the case, based on the assumption that societies, or social orders, can be distinguished by the extent to which competitive tendencies contained within them – economic, political, social and cultural – are resolved according to open, rule-based processes. The book explores which economic conditions allow for increased levels of political competition, and it tests the hypothesis that the nature of a country’s ties with the international economy, and the level of competition within a country’s economic system, will shape the trajectory of political competition within that society. The book goes on to argue that after several decades of relative ‘bloc autarky’ during the socialist period, the ongoing process of reintegration with the international economy across the post-socialist region has resulted in distinct patterns of structural economic development, and that that these patterns are of crucial importance in explaining the variation in social order type across the post-socialist region. By offering a more precise analysis of the causal mechanisms that link economic and political competition, the book makes a useful contribution to research on the different patterns of political behaviour that have been observed across the post-socialist region since the collapse of the socialist regimes.

Author : Alena V. Ledeneva
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801470056
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Russia Really Works written by Alena V. Ledeneva and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s—from the hiring of firms to create negative publicity about one's competitors, to inventing novel schemes of tax evasion and engaging in "alternative" techniques of contract and law enforcement. She discovers ingenuity, wit, and vigor in these activities and argues that they simultaneously support and subvert formal institutions. They enable corporations, the media, politicians, and businessmen to operate in the post-Soviet labyrinth of legal and practical constraints but consistently undermine the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. The "know-how" Ledeneva describes in this book continues to operate today and is crucial to understanding contemporary Russia. On December 6, 2009, Alena Ledeneva discussed her book on the BBC Radio program Forum. Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00551mg#synopsis.

Author : William M Reisinger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122460
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime written by William M Reisinger and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Regional Roots of Russia’s Political Regime, William M. Reisinger and Bryon J. Moraski examine Russian politics at the subnational level in order to discover why democracy failed to take root and how Putin’s authoritarian regime materialized. Since the national regime needed dominant victories in federal legislative and presidential elections, elections were critical to the resurgence of Russian authoritarianism. At the same time, victories without a traditional nationwide political party required that regional politicians help deliver votes. Putin employed a variety of resources to encourage the collaboration of regional leaders during federal elections and to sanction those who would or could not deliver these votes. By analyzing successive federal elections, Reisinger and Moraski show that regions that led the way in delivering votes in Putin’s favor were those that had been both more independent and more authoritarian during the Yeltsin era. These authoritarian enclaves under Yeltsin became models of behavior in the Putin regime, which prized deferential election results. Other regions were quick to follow this lead, functioning during Putin’s ascendancy as “swing states.” Still, Russia’s regimes continued to exhibit regime diversity, with democratic enclaves resisting the push to become cogs in the Kremlin’s electoral authoritarian wheel. While motivated by scholarly questions about authoritarianism, democracy, and the influence of subnational forces on national regime trajectories, Reisinger and Moraski also consider policy-relevant questions.